Gaia Seed

There are some gaming gems overseas, but unfortunately, we never get to play them. Publishers deem them too strange or too foreign to bring them ashore. But thankfully, downloadable content and a company called MonkeyPaw Games are changing that. The downloadable games aspect makes it cheaper to bring those oversea titles to the United States, and recognizing that, the PlayStation Store has set up an Import Section. Meanwhile, the other part of that formula, MonkeyPaw Games, has been helping those Japanese developers port those games over in an unadulterated form.

What gamers get is a weird mix of projects and nothing is stranger than Chou Aniki, a shmup of sorts. It’s a game that’s completely in Japanese, so I had a few friends who knew the language come over. One is an expert in these quick-twitch titles, and he gave me a quick translation about why all these half-naked men were flying across the screen.